Sarah Corriher wrote:Thanks. The trouble is that there really is no adequate video editing program for Linux right now. This is the closest there is, to my knowledge. I don't even want to think about Kdenlive/Openshot. Do you know what the minimum setup would be, or is that what you already described?

If you already have a second monitor that has an audio out connector, the current cheapest solution to audio output on Linux is a DeckLink Mini Monitor (or DeckLink Mini Monitor 4K, if you want full screen UHD).My setup is 2 monitors with one of the monitors connected to the HDMI output of the DeckLink and external speakers plugged into the audio out connector of that monitor. I also have that monitor connected to the PC graphics card via displayport so I can switch the input on the monitor for normal use. The other monitor is just connected to another port on the PC graphics card.I would rather just be able to use system audio of course but the above system works OK.

Thank you Dwaine. A couple of other basic questions:-I have the BM CentOS build successfully installed, and Resolve and Fusion working. -However, I am assuming it's more practical to NOT use this OS install as one's main OS for everyday use.-I have other conventional drives I can install later, but right now I have two 500 GB SSD's. -I intend to put another Linux distro on the same SSD as the BM CentOS build, and leave the second SSD available for fast video caching by Resolve (and Fusion). -Does this make sense, or would it be better to organize it another way? Any recommendations on partition size would also be welcome.

Many thanks.

*I forgot. Will your CentOS build want to auto update? If so, how do I turn that off?

Dwaine Maggart wrote:@Ian: ...No, you should not update the OS after install.

When there is a new CentOS version we support, we'll have a new ISO image for that version.

You are correct that our ISO image is pretty much setup as a dedicated Resolve system, and it may not be the best practical everyday beater machine.

You can install Resolve on an existing build, as long as it's CentOS or RHEL 7 based, as long as you don't mind getting the NVIDIA driver installed (seems to be less than trivial for some) or installing PostgreSQL, if you need it.

As evidenced in this long forum thread, you can get Resolve installed on other distro's with varying degrees of effort and success, but we currently target and support CentOS/RHEL.

*Note for others on Updates to the BM CentOS build: So far, the only update notification that's been an issue is when shutting down the OS. In the confirmation window, there is an update option that's useful to be aware of as you'll need to override your muscle memory and NOT select it.

Just installed fresh system from iso (14.1), centos 7 on recommended hw.Everything works until system update (new kernel version) is performed. After updating kernel, system is not able to boot. Looks like boot partition is too small to run the update.

Can you please advice that small boot partition (1Gb) is being created by design by automatic install to prevent updates?

My feedback: We have been able to install centos. The drivers are painful but we get there with online tutorials. Test two Beta versions then two stable versions, then buy a 4K BMD card. Not having any answer as to the smooth running of the studio version as to the color tab on linux leaves me sad. I have two film projects started on davinci and unfortunately he can not find the word FIN. Three months that lasts. I am very sad.

Different Linux distros have different places where shared libs live. This is one of the reasons which makes it hard to fit all Linux distros at once. You should run 'ldd' command against resolve full path in order to see which libs are not fit and where to put your symlinks.

I have installed Desktop Video and Resolve 14 free on Ubuntu Studio 14 and have audio output in Resolve working via BM Intensity Pro PCIE card through the analogue audio connectors on the breakout cable.

The only issue I have come across so far is that engaging the compressor or limiter / gate in a fairlight channel strip cause the channel output level to jump very high and distort. The EQ functionality is fine it's just the engaging dynamics which causes this to happen.

I have installed Desktop Video and Resolve 14 free on Ubuntu Studio 14 and have audio output in Resolve working via BM Intensity Pro PCIE card through the analogue audio connectors on the breakout cable.

The only issue I have come across so far is that engaging the compressor or limiter / gate in a fairlight channel strip cause the channel output level to jump very high and distort. The EQ functionality is fine it's just the engaging dynamics which causes this to happen.

What version is installed? An earlier version of 14 had this problem, but was fixed a while ago in 14.0.1 at least it was working with my DeckLink 4K up to 14.1.1. I haven't tried 14.2 yet.

I have installed Desktop Video and Resolve 14 free on Ubuntu Studio 14 and have audio output in Resolve working via BM Intensity Pro PCIE card through the analogue audio connectors on the breakout cable.

The only issue I have come across so far is that engaging the compressor or limiter / gate in a fairlight channel strip cause the channel output level to jump very high and distort. The EQ functionality is fine it's just the engaging dynamics which causes this to happen.

What version is installed? An earlier version of 14 had this problem, but was fixed a while ago in 14.0.1 at least it was working with my DeckLink 4K up to 14.1.1. I haven't tried 14.2 yet.

Installed version 14.2 and the problem is gone. Now able to output the audio through the Decklink card and utilise the dynamics without issue.

With all the new advancements in CPU GPU links with PCI-gen 4 and NVLINK with Power 8 and 9 running Linux any thought to porting to a IBM Linux on Power system for 32-64 Core and 1000 of GPU cores?Your RED HAt 7.3 requirement is already met on P8 Systems.

My installation of Davinci-Resolve 14.2. on a Dell-Notebook (Latitude E 7450, with Intel-HD 5500 Grafic) produced a contradictory result on the same machine but under different operation systems: Under Win 8.1. it works fine, under Linux Debian not. The installation on both OS was so far succesful. But under Linux-Debian I cannot't start it. The message is:

I just thought perhaps one of your USB boxes might work. Now that I'm able to read Sony AXSM drives in Linux, audio is the only thing holding back a laptop Linux solution on set. I'm sure it's on the list somewhere.

First, Let me thank BMD and all this great community for the effort on supporting Linux.Haven't worked on Resolve yet, but I'm thrilled with the idea of using it in the near future. For now I'm trying to setup things:- ASUS A88XM-A-USB-31- AMD A10-7870K Radeon R7, 12 Compute Cores 4C+8G- CORSAIR 32GB DDR3 1600MHz- Debian GNU/Linux (4.9.0-5-amd64) - stable - stretch- Resolve 14.2 using makeresolvedeb_14.2-1.sh (thanks to Daniel Tufvesson)

Hi all. previous user of resolve on win 7, and now 10 but looking to have a 2nd system at home to use as well as my workstation for basic edits etc. its a lowly box without too good a spec but im hoping itll be good enough just a lil slow. currently running Core2Duo 6600 @ 2.4ghz, 4gb ram (very low i know), nvidia GT740 with 1gb DDR5 vram.

ive installed Resolve 14 on my lubuntu 17.10 box, using all the tips n tricks here so far in this thread. i had the lib64 issues, lib12png, updated to latest nvidia drivers etc, retried installing using the .deb script (thankyou so much for doing that even though it didnt help me personally). Using all the prev posts i got as far as all the way through the welcome tour and setup. it suggested this box was underpowered for grading but should be ok for editing. Now when i open it however i get basically the same errors as everyone else. sometimes a splash screen, sometimes not, but always no starting. starting in a terminal brings this error

Mikey Yeah wrote:Hi all. previous user of resolve on win 7, and now 10 but looking to have a 2nd system at home to use as well as my workstation for basic edits etc. its a lowly box without too good a spec but im hoping itll be good enough just a lil slow. currently running Core2Duo 6600 @ 2.4ghz, 4gb ram (very low i know), nvidia GT740 with 1gb DDR5 vram....Any help to get me able to open the app would be much appreciated.

cheers. mikey

I'm afraid the GT740 only having 1GB vram is going to be the problem at least. Resolve does work on my GT750Ti with 2GB vram for the relatively simple things I do. Probably the 4GB system ram is also not enough. You could set up a swap disk but it would be very slow.

@Tero Ahlfors: For the moment I have to extract audio for DaVinci as well as for Fusion. I just think it would be nice to save this extra effort just with supporting compressed audio (mp3 is opensource and should be easy to be decoded in Resolve, in Fusion they could even implement a script which extracts audio in the background and loads it as separate file).

@Noel Sterrett: Installed midisport-firmware, tested if midi is working with midisnoop. Under preferences in DaVinci I can nowhere find anything relate to midi and midi remote. Even on google there stands nothing that you can control DaVinci with a midi controller. So I guess no midi support. But nice idea, would be amazing!

I am having troubles getting the studio version to work though (I bought a dongle specifically for this, after testing the studio version ). It does start, but I cant get the dongle to be detected. Has anyone experienced issues or success with the dongle outside the "supported" CentOS distribution?

Actually (answering my previous post, which hasn't been aproved yet ). If you install in Arch Linux through the AUR package (for the non-studio version) the UDEV rules will not be created so that the USB device has 0666 permissions.

A new file in /lib/udev/rules.d/75-sdx.rules has to be created, with the following contents:

Now it's working great! I wanted to support a company that provides a linux application, I'm waiting for my Studio card in order to have audio output for now! (quite an investment for an amateur editor )

PS: i uploaded the PKGBUILD to github, you can install davinci resolve studio in archlinux by cloning or downloading the repository, running 'makepkg' inside the repo dir (it should be named davinci-resolve-studio), and then, as root, run 'pacman -U davinci-resolve-studio-14.2.tar.xz'. https://github.com/codibit/davinci-resolve-studio

I have a iMac 5k with DaVinci Resolve Studio 14.2.0, 'everything' works but a bit weak on 4k material

Ambition:Build a powerful Linux video workstation to get more performance, but still keep the iMac for initial work

I now have a AMD Threadripper with GPU 1080 ti running the Black Magic configured CentOS image installed on one diskDaVinci Resolve Studio 14.2.0Desktop Video 10.9.10Have been struggling with video and sound output, I've followed the discussions on this great forum, so was prepared for more issues on Linux (I have many years experience with Linux)---To get DaVinci Resolve to work was easy with the BMD CentOS (struggled earlier with 14 beta and 12.x versions/plain CentOS on other hardware fighting NVidia drivers, missing libs etc)

I've now upgraded DaVinci and Desktop Video without problems several times

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But, the Ultra Studio mini monitor via TB2/TB3 adapter didn't work, the Intensity shuttle via USB didn't work (both work on iMac and a MacBook Pro with High Sierra/earlier Sierra)I bought a Decklink Mini monitor 4k PCI and got HDMI video to work on a 1080p TV I have mounted above the computers - but no sound!

At the same time I bought a Video Assist 4K with normal size SDI in/out, when I connected it via HDMI no sound, but SDI from Decklink Mini monitor 4k PCI showed sound and a headphone gave fine quality sound!Thought of ordering another box for SDI -> HDMI but took a chance and connected the HDMI out on Video Assist to the TV, IT WORKED! (Is this conversion feature documented?)Then connected a cheap HDMI -> HDMI box with sound breakout and got optical sound to a Pioneer surround receiver

It looks very odd with all the cables and boxes, and on top of that I had to convert a sound file to AIFF to get it accepted (Original format was accepted directly on the Mac)

---Yesterday evening I succeded in editing two 4k video clips (one Log2 with a LUT to rec 709) and a couple of extra sound tracks, monitoring video and sound on external TV/amplifier and downscaling to 1080PThe rendering was so fast

First a BIG THANK YOU for building DaVinci Resolve for Linux, I believe it will be the most effective and stable platform performance wise!

But please inform us about the limitations!

I've seen on the forum how many spent a lot of time trying things BMD knows don't workAlso please inform in the user interface what's not implemented yet (system sound on linux is a 'good' example...) and in the free version what requires the Studio license

I'm so impressed with the high quality and helpful attitude on the forum, I think most people see value in following it